Category Archives: The Digital Principal
Revolutionizing Education – Interview with Sal Khan
Over the past nine months Shawn and I have been involved in a project with the Girard and Pollinate Foundations focusing on how schools can radically transform themselves to improve student learning and teaching methods. It is our belief that … Continue reading
Google Adds New Education Category to App Marketplace
With more than ten million student and faculty users of Google apps, Google is making clear its desire to be a key player in the education market. In recent weeks Google has announced significant additions to its education services. Last … Continue reading
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Tagged apps, aviary, brainpop, cloud, collaboration, education, gmail, Google, google apps, grockit, integration, learnboost, schools, students, Technology
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Managing Complex Change
If educators plan to transform their schools into institutions that promote 21st century learning skills, systemic change must occur. This sort of change will not only require significant resources, but the type of transformation we are looking for demands highly … Continue reading
Cheaters Never Win
MIT professor David E. Pritchard conducted a recent study that analyzed cheating on homework in his introductory physics course. He arrived at some interesting conclusions. Chief among these, that cheating occurs about 50% more than is reported by students in … Continue reading
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Tagged cheat, email, ethical behavior, MIT, online, online learning, physics, plagiarism, pritchard, students, teachers, Technology
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Think About This!
In An Open Letter to Educators, Dan Brown challenges educators, as well as our past notions of education. It is bound to spark controversy in some areas. Nevertheless, this should cause each teacher to re-examine the relationship between teacher, student, … Continue reading
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Tagged change, dan brown, education, information, learning, letter, video games, Web 2.0
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